Andrey Belevantsev wrote: > Obviously, a library is not enough for a heterogeneous system, or > am I missing anything from your description? As I know, e.g. there is > no device-independent bytecode in the OpenCL standard which such a > backend could generate.
That's correct. I was envisioning a proper compiler that would take OpenCL input and generate binary output, for a particular target, just as with all other GCC input languages. That target might be a GPU, or it might be a multi-core CPU, or it might be a single-core CPU. Of course, OpenCL also specifies some library functionality; that could be provided in a library that included hand-written assembly code, or was generated by some non-GCC tool. -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery m...@codesourcery.com (650) 331-3385 x713
